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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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